Denis Villeneuve Quotes
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Viola Davis is a perfect example of somebody who's so much better than the parts she has the opportunity to play.
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I have always appreciated the honest brutality of the international film world. One need never doubt one's worth in the market. Mine was zero.
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
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In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.
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I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
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A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team.
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September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.
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Once you have a central character who announces in the first five minutes of the show that he feels whooped by life and that he's had enough, I'm in. I'm hooked.
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The world I travel is my inspiration. I name my dresses after cities that inspire me.
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You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.
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Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It's a way of being alive for the writer.
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I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.
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Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
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Taylor's Law states: 'The Foreign Office knows no secrets.'
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And you know the reason I really love the stars is that we cannot hurt them. We can't burn them or melt them or make them overflow. We can't flood them or blow them up or turn them out. But we are reaching for them. We are reaching for them.
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Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.
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Is That All There Is?
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We must spread our principles, not with words but with deeds, for this is the most popular, the most potent, and the most irresistible form of propaganda.
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All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.
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The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.
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I like the idea that cinema is a spectacle.
